Self-striking fishing-float.



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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTOPHER HYMERS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SELF-STRIKING FISHING-FLOAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 711,318, dated October 14, 1902.

l Application filed April 4, 1902. Serial No. 101,350. (No model Lo L7/Z whom, may cm2/cern.:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER HYMERs, a citizen ot' the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, iu the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Self Striking Fishing Floats, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact desc1iption,ret'erence being had to the accompanying dra\vi1igs,forn1ing part of this specification.

My invention relates to a fishing-float con-` taining means to furnish medium that will be actuated by a iish toettect a sudden striking action for the purpose of causing the fish-hook at the end of a lishing-line to be 4quickly drawn into the mouth of the fish to secure i thereto.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is a side view of my float. Fig. II is alongitudinal sectional view taken through the iioat-bob and springncasing tube and showing the spring and parts connected thereto in elevation. Fig. III is a similar view to Fig. II, showing the line-actuating spring expanded. Fig. IV is an enlarged eross-sec tional view taken on line IV IV, Fig. II. Fig. V is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view taken on line V V, Fig. IV.

l designates a bob, and 2 a tube that passes through the bob l. The tube 2 is open at its lower end and is provided with a restricted aperture 3 at its upper end.

4 is a fishing-line attached to an eye 5, carried by the tube 2 at its upper end.

6 designates an expansion-spring located in the tube 2 and seated upon a supporting-ring 7, which constitutes a shoulder within the tube at its lower end. The upper end of the spring has connected to it a disk 8, in which a pull-rod 9 is ixed, the said rod being extended above the disk 8 and passing downwardly into the center of the spring 6, as seen in Fig. III.

lO designates an elongated rocking trigger centrally connected to said pull-rod by means of an eye II at the lower end et the rod, that is loosely seated in said trigger.

l2 designates a pull-wire loosely mounted center from that occupied by the pull-wire 1'2 and having a coil 15 loosely wrapped around the pull-wire 12, so as to be subject to movement on said pull-wire.

In the practical use of this device the parts are set for operation in the following manner: By exerting a pull upon the pull-wire l2 the operator draws the rocking trigger 10 and pull-rod 9 downwardly within the tube 2 to compress the eX pansion-spring 6 from the position seen in Fig. III into the condition illustrated in Fig. II. At the time that the spring 6 is so compressed the rocking trigger l0 has been drawn to a position beneath the shoulder-ring 7 in the` lower end of the tube 2, and in order to hold it in that position the setting-wire 14 is grasped by the fingers ot' the operator and drawn upon to rock the trigger so that it will extend lengthwise across the interior ot the tube, as seen in Fig. II, and rest against the'lower edge of the shoulder-ring 7, where it will remain to hold the compressed spring from expanding. I/Vhen in the use of the article a fish becomes hooked upon the line 4, its tugging upon said line exercises a pull upon the pull-wire I2, with the result that the trigger l0 is drawn downwardly from the shoulder-ring 7 and rocked on its central connection to the pullwire 9, so that the trigger will extend in approximately longitudinal direction within the tube 2, so as to be capable of passing through the shoulder-ring 7, against which it previously rested. As soon as this action `has taken place the spring 6 expands suddenly within the tube 2 and moves the parts into the position seen in Fig. III, thereby quickly drawing the hook on the fish-line into the fish to impale it thereon.

By placing the shoulder-ring '7 wholly within ICO and therefore accidental tripping of the trigger is avoided in the event ot' the trigger being exposed.

I claim as my inventionl. In a fishing-float, the combination with a bob and fishing-line, ot' a tube in said bob, a shoulder within the lower end of said tube, an expansion-spring in said tube, a pull-rod connected to said spring, a rocking cam-trigger connected to said pull-rod and adapted to engage the shoulder Within the lower end of said tube, and means for connecting said trigger to said fishing-line, substantially as described.

2. In a shing-float, the combination with a bob and fishing-line, of a tube in said bob, a shoulder within the lower end of said tube, an expansion-spring in said tube, a pull-rod connected to said spring, a rocking cam-trigger connected to said pull-rod and adapted to engage the shoulder Within the lower end of said tube, means for connecting said trigger .to said fishing-line, and means for setting said trigger against said shoulder, substantially as described.

3. In a fishing-Heat, the combination with a bob and fishing-line, of a tube in said bob connectedto said fishing-line, a shoulder-ring within the lower end of said tube, an eXpansion-spring located in said tube, a pull-rod connected to said spring, a rocking can1-trig ger connected to said pull-rod and adapted to engage the shoulder-ring in said tube, and a pull-Wire connected to said trigger and said fishing-line, substantially as described.

4. In a iishing-float, the combination with a bob and fishing-line, of a tube in said bob connected to said fishing-line, an expansion- 'spring located in said tube, a pull-rod connected to said spring, a rocking cam-trigger connected to said pull-rod and adapted to engage the lower end of said tube, a pull-wire connected to said trigger and said fishingline, and a setting-Wire connected to said :side of its center, and a setting-wire connected to said trigger at the opposite side of the center thereof and loosely applied to said pullwire, substantially as described.

CHRISTOPHER HYMERS. In presence of* E. S. KNIGHT, M.l P. SMITH. 

